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Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 -- victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes, their unconventional themes, coarse language, and mention of actual people and places made publishers of the day reluctant to undertake sponsorship.
Today, however, the stories are admired for their intense and masterly dissection of "dear dirty Dublin," and for the economy and grace with which Joyce invested...

Um anhand dieses Kapitels einen Zugang zu Kompositionstechnik und Schreibweise des Ulysses zu ermöglichen, werden in dem vorliegenden Band drei »Fassungen« dieses Kapitels vorgelegt: der englische Originaltext des »Penelope«-Kapitels, die 1927 erschienene Übersetzung dieses Kapitels von Georg Goyert und die Neuübertragung durch Hans Wollschläger. Diese erstmalige Präsentation des englischen Originals zusammen mit den beiden Übersetzungen erlaubt es gleichzeitig, einen Einblick in unterschiedliche Interpretationen des Ulysses zu erhalten, wie sie durch die zwei...

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James Joyce's writings centre on the city of Dublin, where he was born into a middle-class family in 1882. Despite this preoccupation, he left Dublin for the continent in 1904 and spent most of his life abroad. Joyce first caught the attention of critics with 'Dubliners', a brilliant collection of short stories, and rapidly grew in fame and status with his ground-breaking stream-of-consciousness style and the explicit content of his prose in such works as 'Ulysses' and 'Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man'. 'The Dead' is universally acknowledged as one of his best works, both in its style...